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BYOD Drives Developer Interest in Apple, Windows 8 [REPORT]
Appcelerator and IDC released the results of a new joint survey today that polled over 3,500 mobile developers, and provides a few very notable insights into the current state of the mobile industry. One of the several conclusions that the two firms drew is that the enterprise is very high on developers’ priority list. An ...
Bottlenose Enters Public Beta, Takes on Google for Social Search
Bottlenose entered public beta today. The real-time social search engine aggregates data from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and LinkedIn and visualizes it all for the user in one of several different formats. Undergoing a major change from its initial product launched a few months ago in private beta, Bottlenose has added several features to enable ...
Siri’s Sister Trapit Rolls Out iPad App, Stays Focused on Core AI
Trapit is an interesting little service that acts as a hybrid between a search engine and a recommendation app, with a number of social components that go on top. Today the startup is introducing an iPad application to give users access to their content directly via a mobile client. It’s one of the biggest updates ...
Visual.ly Launches Social Network: A Microcosm of Data Cross-Breeds
Probably the most intriguing thing about today’s emerging interest in data is its horizontal impact across industries and disciplines. Data analytics, for instance, is being applied to academia, finance and healthcare alike. Data scientists are a conglomerate of studies and experiences from statistics to language arts, and this phenomenon is converging around all the new ...
All Devices Need WiFi, Says Xirrus CEO Shane Buckley [Q&A Series]
WiFi’s one of those technologies running in the background, rarely pondered until there’s a problem with the router. But it’s a major part of our infrastructure as we power into an era of mobility, filling in the gaping holes 4G leaves behind and connecting everything from our tablets to our Bluetooth headsets so they can ...
Manage eBay, Craigslist and Facebook from your Phone: Quick’s New App
Quick launched their new app today, aiming to streamline online marketplaces into one place – your mobile phone. The app brings buyers closer to sellers via multiple social and enterprise platforms such as eBay, Craigslist, Facebook, and of course the QUICK Mobile Marketplace. “You can do almost anything from your smartphone – from paying bills ...
Telerik Deep Dives into the Tablet Space with Kendo UI Update
Telerik announced a big update to its Kendo UI mobile development framework today with the release of several new features, including ASP.Net wrappers and functionality that extends the platform from just mobile devices to tablets as well. The company added what it calls ‘server-side helpers’ for ASP.NET MVC. Now a developer can write code in his or ...
What Comes After Cloud Collaboration? Alfresco CEO Shares His Vision
With a penchant for scalability and modularity, Alfresco’s free enterprise cloud management software has a steady eye on open source trends. Having recently come out of beta, Alfresco’s tools are now available for the general public. Alfresco’s moving swiftly, having also initiated its plans for an IPO. The company’s CEO John Powell hopes Alfresco’s public offering will ...
Will Android ICS Take the Backseat for Jelly Bean?
Google recently unveiled the Nexus 7 running the latest Android version 4.1 – Jelly Bean. Everyone’s quite excited as it seems to be the best version of Android to date. But what does this mean for the Ice Cream Sandwich? Google’s struggled to gain significant market share of its own ecosystem with the latest “revolutionary” ...
Deep Dive: Springpad for Android Update
Springpad, the virtual notebook that lets you save all your awesome ideas in one big, fluffy cloud, has been pushing hard on mobile lately. Now, Springpad’s always had a vested interest in mobile–their recent 3.0 overhaul rolled out with the web, iOS and Android updates all at once, and the cross-platform integration has ushered in ...
